Today we celebrate the life of The Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the world's best-known Black activists who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., died at the age of 84.

The icon of the Civil Rights Movement and beyond was remembered by politicians and prominent activists after it was announced he died "peacefully" on Tuesday morning, February 17th after a long journey with a progressive neurological disease. Jackson was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, a two-time Democratic presidential candidate and a mentor to many civil rights leaders.

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